In May 2003, when it was evident that the then [Telegraph Media Group (!?)] proprietor Lord Black of Crossharbour was at odds with other shareholders in his master company, Hollinger International, Sir David sent a fax from Monte Carlo which said simply: “I wish to register our interest should you contemplate any serious change in your UK interests”; to which Black replied: “Conditions are quite manageable. No assets are for sale.”
By November of that year, however, Black’s position was more vulnerable, and secret negotiations with Sir David began. A deal was struck …*
Sir David had an astute grasp of the political landscape and one friend recalled that he was “able to read the economic ‘tea-leaves’ like few people of his generation”. But as newspaper proprietors, it had always been the brothers’ policy to intervene barely at all in editorial decisions – though their editors knew that they supported Margaret Thatcher’s enthusiasm for small government, free markets, lower taxes, wealth creation and providing the means of social mobility to everyone.*
17 (17) Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay £7bn*
Ritchie also calls out scientists who write hype-filled books for the public. He singles out Berkeley neuroscientist Matthew Walker, asserting that Walker’s book, Why We Sleep, blatantly misinterprets the underlying science, …*
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Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assangehttps://t.co/K68ICDFhx2
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and a warning from the US
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where 'impunity' leadshttps://t.co/Yug8aTKPOf
Nice article looking at how a fear by the Thatcher govt led to a computer literacy project, a TV programme, a cheapish desktop, a bad decision by Intel, and then an explosion over 30 years of usage of this British design. https://t.co/TvRvlZ5RW6
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Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp (October 16, 1816 – April 15, 1908) was a French scientist now best known for breakthroughs in applied organic chemistry and for a bitter rivalry with Louis Pasteur.
… Béchamp's work continues to be promoted by a small group of alternative medicine proponents (also known as germ theory denialists), including advocates of alternative theories of cancer, who dismiss Pasteur's germ theory and argue that Béchamp's ideas were unjustly ignored. They accuse Pasteur, as did The French Academy of Sciences, of plagiarising and then suppressing Béchamp's work, citing work such as Ethel Douglas Hume's Béchamp or Pasteur: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology from the 1920s.
source: Wikipedia item on Antoine Béchamp (!w2)